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From the beginning of my training in the Feldenkrais Method, I began to be curious about how to apply it to acting. I was struck by how much Awareness Through Movement altered my sense of myself – sometimes making me feel more like myself and sometimes making me feel like a brand new person. I […]

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When I first began to explore somatic awareness, it was through lessons in the Alexander Technique. Despite the excellent lessons of my extraordinary teachers, I often managed to make the technique a judgment of myself. I imagined that when someone with Alexander training looked at me, they were judging me – seeing how “bad” my […]

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In high school, I took the Meyers-Briggs test and landed exactly in the middle on the introversion/extroversion scale. I was an XNFP. When I took it again later in life, I landed firmly on the Introvert side – not even close. This was due, I think, to just knowing myself and my needs better than […]